News

1/15/2019
The Manning School of Business hosted more than 800 students from nine area high schools for a DECA regional conference at the Campus Recreation Center and University Suites.

1/14/2019
Are America’s public schools failing their students? For the most part, they’re not, says education historian and Asst. Prof. Jack Schneider – despite political rhetoric to the contrary.

1/14/2019
A team of first-year students rooted at UMass Lowell captured top honors and $5,000 in prize money at the first Hack Haverhill 24-hour hackathon competition, topping 14 other teams from colleges, high schools and the professional world.

1/14/2019
Jonathan Lemire, White House correspondent for the Associated Press and the son of Susan Lemire, the university’s coordinator of advisory services and is a member of the curriculum committee for the Learning in Retirement Association, spoke at UMass Lowell recently.

1/7/2019
The Manning School of Business hosted its first Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Tu Tran, associate professor of finance and head of the Department of Finance and Banking at Vietnam National University.

12/26/2018
Mikey Lacroix, 20, son of Evelyn and John Lacroix, owners of Ski Ward in Shrewsbury, is the 12th-ranked U.S. snowboard cross, or boardercross, racer, a rising star with serious Olympic aspirations and a business major at UMass Lowell, who takes each spring semester off to compete.

12/19/2018
The Born to Run Foundation made its first prosthetic donation recently to 3-year-old Isaak Depelteau of Amherst, N.H. Isaak's new prosthetic running leg was officially presented by foundation founder Noelle Lambert, a senior at UMass Lowell who lost her left leg in a moped accident on Martha's Vineyard in 2016.

12/15/2018
A new digital archive -- launched at UMass Lowell on Dec. 4 -- documents the history, culture and experiences of people of Southeast Asian origin living throughout the area.

12/12/2018
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by a UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor that is working to develop renewable fuel additives from sawdust and other wood byproducts.

11/28/2018
Robert Smith, director of the U.S. Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program, spoke at the opening of UMass Lowell's new Research Institute in Lincoln. The center will host a variety of public-private sector partnerships, including workforce development, research opportunities and more.